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Title: Speak Out For Cindy Sheehan
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Speak Out
URL Source: http://ga3.org/campaign/speakout
Published: Aug 16, 2005
Author: Elizabeth Edwards
Post Date: 2005-08-16 22:11:20 by justlurking
Keywords: Sheehan, Speak, Cindy
Views: 99
Comments: 11
Thank you for getting involved. See the full text of Elizabeth Edwards' message below. Casey Sheehan was born May 29, 1979, the first born child of Cindy and Pat Sheehan. It was a long labor. Fifty-one days after Casey was born, our first child, Wade was born, also after a long labor. They started school the same year, played the same games, watched the same television shows, loved the same country. On April 4, 1996, three weeks after going to Washington as a winner in a national contest about what America meant to him, Wade died in an automobile accident. On April 4, 2004, eight years later to the day, Casey, who loved his country enough to wear its uniform, died in Iraq. Cindy and Pat's hearts broke, as had ours. We teach our children right from wrong. We teach them compassion and honor. We teach them the dignity of each life. And then, sometimes, the lessons we taught are turned on their heads. Cindy Sheehan is asking a very simple thing of her government, and she and her family, and most particularly Casey, have paid a very dear price for the right to ask this. Cindy wants Casey's death to have meant as much as his life - lived fully - might have meant. I know this, as does every mother who has ever stood where we stand. And the President says he knows enough, doesn't need to hear from Casey's mother, doesn't need to assure her that Casey's is not one small death in a long and seemingly never-ending drip of deaths, that there is a plan here that will bring our sons and daughters home. He doesn't need to hear from her, he says. He claims he understands how some people feel about the deaths in Iraq. The President is wrong. Whether you agree or disagree with every part, or any part, of what Cindy wants to say, you know it is better that the President hear different opinions, particularly from those with such a deep and personal interest in the decisions of our government. Today, another voice would be helpful. Cindy Sheehan can be that voice. She has earned the right to be that voice. Please join me in supporting Cindy's right to be heard. I grew up in a military family. My father and my grandfather were career Navy pilots. I saw what it meant to live a life every single day when the possibility of an honorable death is always there, at the dinner table, on the playground, at the base school. Will someone's father not come home tonight? And I didn't just feel the possibility, I saw the real thing, and, believe me, it stays with you, it changes you. I also saw, then and more recently as I campaigned across this country and spent time with courageous military mothers and wives, how little attention is paid to the needs and the voices of military families. It has to change. The sacrifices that our military men and women make assure us that we have the strongest military in the world, but the sacrifices that their families make are too often ignored. The President's cavalier dismissal of Cindy Sheehan is emblematic of a greater problem. This is a mother who raised her son to love his country enough to serve. This is a mother who lived the impossible life of a mother of a soldier serving in Iraq, unable to sleep when he sleeps, unable to sleep when he is on duty, unable to watch the television, unable to stop watching the television. And when the worst does happen, when the world comes crashing down and she puts the boy she bore, the boy she taught, the boy she loved in the ground, what does that government say to her? It says we'll do the talking; we don't need to hear from you. If we are decent and compassionate, if we know the lessons we taught our children, or if, selfishly, all we want is the long line of the brave to protect us in the future, we should listen to the mothers now. Listen to Cindy. Join me so Cindy knows we believe she has earned the right to be heard. Elizabeth Edwards
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#1. To: All (#0)
Listen to Cindy. Of course it hurts, You're getting screwed by an elephant
What psychotic bastards are gathered on the Bush side. I despise them
Amen. I didn't think I could feel any worse than I did about them. Wrong again.
Of course it hurts, You're getting screwed by an elephant
I didnt realize that the Edwards had lost a son. The Freepers of course would cheer about this and say both Edwards and Sheehan are 'grief pimps'.. sickos. thanks for posting this.
I wonder if this picture will someday be like the one of the Delacroix girl at Kent State. After they shot the kids at Kent State the bots of the day went around holding up four fingers and saying that the score was four. This really sickened the average person and played a big part in bringing the antiwar feeling to the mainstream.
As a rule, they do not talk about it. He died in a car accident in North Carolina. He was 18 I think.
Of course it hurts, You're getting screwed by an elephant
If anyone needed a clearer picture of just how these people really feel about soldiers and the families left behind after they are killed, they got it today.
Of course it hurts, You're getting screwed by an elephant
Here's the rube supposedly arrested and charged with running over the crosses. A few over on LP are still screaming the whole thing is a liberal plot.
They especially can't stand crosses. We all know who can't stand crosses the most in the USA, I think. The same group who couldn't stand Mel-Gibson's movie, "The Passion of Christ."
God is always good!
He looks like a typical Freeper. Not surprising. Check this out, his own kin isn't real thrilled with him either. Veteran Offers New Campsite to Camp Casey, Closer to Bush Ranch August 16th, 2005 Camp Casey is moving closer to Bush Ranch… A veteran and relative of relative of “the man who had fired a shotgun in frustration over the protests” has offered his property to Cindy Sheehan and Camp Casey. The property is closer to Bush’s Crawford ranch. “A neighbor of President Bush’s has offered us his land,” the source said. “It’s got plenty of acreage for us, it’s private land, we would have legal permission to be on it, it’s much closer to the ranch — in fact it’s across the street from his (Bush’s) church.” “We have taken him up on his offer,” the source added. Sheehan was not immediately available for comment. Sheehan was expected to begin moving as early as Wednesday morning. This is a small victory for Cindy Sheehan who is in her 10th day of protest outside of Bush’s Crawford Ranch. According to the source, the land offered to Sheehan is owned by Fred Mattlage, who is a distant cousin of Larry Mattlage, a man who fired a shotgun over the weekend in frustration over the commotion caused by the vigil. ‘I support what you all are doing’ The source said Fred Mattlage made the offer saying “I’m a veteran, I support what you all are doing and I want to offer you my land.” Of course it hurts, You're getting screwed by an elephant
Only when someone preceived as a *liberal* has them.
Of course it hurts, You're getting screwed by an elephant
And when the worst does happen, when the world comes crashing down and she puts the boy she bore, the boy she taught, the boy she loved in the ground, what does that government say to her? It says we'll do the talking; we don't need to hear from you. If we are decent and compassionate, if we know the lessons we taught our children, or if, selfishly, all we want is the long line of the brave to protect us in the future, we should listen to the mothers now.
#2. To: justlurking (#1)
#3. To: Jethro Tull (#2)
What psychotic bastards are gathered on the Bush side. I despise them
#4. To: justlurking (#0)
#5. To: justlurking (#1)
#6. To: Zipporah (#4)
I didnt realize that the Edwards had lost a son.
#7. To: crack monkey (#5)
#8. To: justlurking (#7)
#9. To: justlurking (#7)
If anyone needed a clearer picture of just how these people really feel about soldiers and the families left behind after they are killed, they got it today.
#10. To: crack monkey (#8)
#11. To: RickyJ (#9)
They especially can't stand crosses.
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